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Introduced by John Timpsen and Barry Norman
Including at 6.50 and 7.51 Travel news, What's on and (6.50 only) Keep Fit; Weather and programme news at 6.55 and 7.5S. At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 7.25 and 8.25; Today's Papers at 7.35* and 8.J5*; and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50.

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpsen
Introduced By:
Barry Norman

Clouds of Witness by DOROTHY L. SAYERS : adapted in eight episodes by PETER JONES and TANIA LIEVSN starring
Producer SIMON BRETT

Contributors

Unknown:
Dorothy L. Sayers
Unknown:
Peter Jones
Unknown:
Tania Lievsn
Producer:
Simon Brett
Lord Peter:
Ian Carmichael
Bunter:
Peter Jones
the Dowager Duchess in 4: Mary Quite Contrary:
Patricia Routledge
Insp Parker:
Gabriel Woolf
Lady Mary WIMSEY:
Maria Aitken
Miss Tarrant:
Miriam Margolyes
Doctor Thorpe/Sir Andrew:
David Sinclair
Soviet woman:
Bonnie Hurren

The Parish Magazine by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Read by Gabriel Woolf
A special meeting of the RSBYP will be held at 16 Stanmore Terrace, in the billiards-room of John Anderson , jp, tonight at 9.0 pm. The presence of Mr James Pomeroy , printer, is urgently needed ...

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Conan Doyle
Read By:
Gabriel Woolf
Unknown:
John Anderson
Unknown:
Mr James Pomeroy

John Amis turns his attention to the world of singers.
10: Not Only Angels Sing
With the emphasis on talk rather than singing - ELISABETH SCHU MANN, VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES, ALFRED DELLER and JON VICKERS. Producer DEREK DRESCHER

Contributors

Unknown:
John Amis
Unknown:
Elisabeth Schu
Unknown:
Alfred Deller
Unknown:
Jon Vickers.
Producer:
Derek Drescher

Going Back
Written and narrated by OWEN HOLDER
Charles Haydon is a giant of the business world and a Member of Parliament. What is more, he lives by his principles: he is in every sense a gentleman, respected by his friends, his business associates and the public ... It's sad to think that before the day is out he wtll be dead ...
Producer IAN COTTERELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Haydon
Producer:
Ian Cotterell
Charles Haydon, mp:
Timothy Batesen
Ruth:
Sheila Shand Gibbs
Miss Williams:
Emily Richard
Iris Haydon:
Carole Boyd
Hotel Proprietress:
Madi Hedd
Lady:
Betty Huntley-Wright
Gentleman:
Alan Dudley

from 2.0 Presenter Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: Artur Rubinstein
2.1-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
If I Were Editor: a Woman's Hour listener exchanges her views about the programme with editor WYN KNOWLES.
Wanted - Happy Christmas Volunteers! 3 DOROTHY GRACE ELDER discovers how the Christmas spirit crosses the Borstal walls of Scotland.
Duck with a Difference: BERNARD JACKSON takes a Chinese dinner with IRENE HUANG. DAVID suck reads The Castle Inn by STANLEY J. WEYMAN (3)

Contributors

Unknown:
Artur Rubinstein
Editor:
Wyn Knowles.
Unknown:
Dorothy Grace
Unknown:
Irene Huang.

Jigsaw
A psychological thriller by DEREK HODDINOTT
The story of a young man, Bob, who plays on the mental instability of his former school-friend, Graham, with terrifying and disastrous results.
Producer DAVID H. GODFREY

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Hoddinott
Producer:
David H. Godfrey
Bob:
Noel Johnson
Graham:
John Carson
Val:
Norma Ronald
Jean:
Jane Thompson
Det-Sgt Cooper:
John Franklyn-Robbins

The questions and ideas you send discussed this week by Renée Houston Annetta Hoffnung Jean Kent. Margaret Powell In the chair Anona Winn
Devised by ANONA WINN and JAN MESSITER
ProducerJOHN BRIDGES
(Repeated: Friday, 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Renée Houston
Unknown:
Annetta Hoffnung
Unknown:
Jean Kent.
Unknown:
Margaret Powell
Unknown:
Anona Winn
Unknown:
Anona Winn
Unknown:
Jan Messiter
Producer:
John Bridges

J.B.
He was officially Sir John Bar birolll, but to music lovers everywhere, from Berlin to Houston, Texas, and above all in Manchester, he was just ' J.B.'
Michael Kennedy , his friend and biographer, presents a portrait of him in words and - mostly - music.
ProducerSTANLEY WILLIAMSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir John Bar
Unknown:
Michael Kennedy
Producer:
Stanley Williamson

The New Liberty
Six talks about survival and justice in a changing world by Ralf Dahrendorf 4: On Difference
The pursuit of liberty is the chief problem for all men. but their conditions are very different. Professor Dahrendorf compares Britain and Germany; capitalist and socialist societies: and the advanced and the developing worlds. Can we have unity while preserving variety?

Contributors

Unknown:
Ralf Dahrendorf

Chéri by COLETTE translated by ROGER SENHOUSE abridged in 12 instalments by JOY OSBORNE
Read by Stobhan McKenna
Paris in the early 1900s. For six years Chéri has been the lover of the famous courtesan, Léa de Lonval. Now he must marry and leave his 49-year-old mistress. But Lea has made the mistake of falling in love with this last of her young lovers and without her he is lost. ProducerJOHN CARDY

Contributors

Translated By:
Roger Senhouse
Unknown:
Joy Osborne
Read By:
Stobhan McKenna
Producer:
John Cardy

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